Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - TITANS DRAFT REACTION: Titans Trade AJ Brown & Draft Treylon Burks, Trade Out of First Round

Episode Date: April 29, 2022

The Tennessee Titans made some WILD moves on Thursday night in the first round of the NFL Draft. Trading AJ Brown to the Philadelphia Eagles and drafting Treylon Burks. Why did they do this? What Next? Who is still available and what picks do the Titans have now? Tyler is answers all your questions on this LIVE NFL Draft reaction show!!Follow Tyler on Twitter @TicTacTitansFollow the show on Facebook @LockedOnTitansPodSubscribe to the Locked on Titans YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/LockedOnTitansSupport Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts!Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you.Shady RaysEXCLUSIVELY FOR OUR LISTENERS, HEAD TO SHADYRAYS.COM AND USE CODE LOCKEDON TO GET FIFTY PERCENT OFF TWO OR MORE PAIRS OF POLARIZED SUNGLASSES.Athletic GreensTo make it easy, Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/NFLNETWORK.Blue NileThis Mother’s Day give mom something she’ll treasure forever with fine jewelry from Bluenile.com, and LOCKEDON SPORTS listeners get $50 off $500. Use code LOCKEDON at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Locked on Titans podcast. I am your host, Tyler Rowland. Titans fans, it is a live NFL Draft first round reaction podcast reacting to all Then they trade out of the first round with their original pick and pick up some additional selections in the second round. I'm breaking down what the heck happened out there tonight in the first round of the NFL Draft. What picks do the Titans have left? Who could they be after in the second round? All of that and more on a first round NFL Draft reaction edition of the Locked On Titans podcast. Let's get it.

You are Locked On Titans, your daily Tennessee Titans podcast, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Titans fans, it is a first round NFL draft reaction edition of the Locked On Titans podcast. We're going to talk this crazy A.J. Brown trade that was made. Sending A.J. Brown to the Philadelphia Eagles. Talk about the draft pick of Traylon Burks. We're going to talk about who's left in the draft right now and what picks do the Titans even have anymore.

Going over all of that and much more on today's show. Before we get into it, I do want to thank you guys for making the Locked on Titans podcast your first listen every day. If this is your first ever listen to the Locked on Titans podcast, make sure you subscribe on whatever platform that you do stream. I am going to be putting out daily, Monday through Friday, Tennessee Titans content, not only during the season, but all year long, free, here on the Locked on Titans podcast. That includes the Locked on Titans YouTube channel.

Make sure you subscribe. Throw a thumbs up on the video if you're watching right now and hit that notification bell. You can follow me on Twitter at TicTacTitans. Follow the show on Facebook at LockedOnTitansPod. But with all that being said, I mean, just my instant raw reaction is what the heck?

I mean, what in the world is going on? I've been pretty forward about the decision to trade A.J. Brown and just simply to call it a disaster. I don't know what else to say. To watch what A.J. Brown has done for this franchise, and I think last year we learned a valuable lesson, that while Derrick Henry is a valuable weapon, A.J. Brown was the straw that stirred the drink.

Without A.J. Brown, the Titans offense was the drink. Without A.J. Brown, the Titans offense was lifeless. With him, plays were made all over. Think about that game in San Francisco, him making all those plays. Think about that catch against the Bengals in the end zone. To look at what A.J. Brown has done, and I don't care if this is hyperbolic or not, A.J. Brown is the best wide receiver in Tennessee Titans history. He was a far better wide receiver than Derek Mason was. Derek Mason was a good wide receiver, but when he made the Pro Bowl, it was mostly because of his return duties. So, to trade A.J. Brown, and I mean, look,

the word's coming out. The Titans are spinning the story. They offered A.J. Brown $20 million per year. He didn't want it. He balked at it, and then he quit communicating with the team. That's what the story is right now. Diana Rossini is putting that out. That's what we're hearing. Right here, Diana Rossini.

Quote, Brown wanted a massive contract extension from the Titans with a year left on his deal and didn't receive it. He didn't attend voluntary workouts and stopped communicating with the team per sources. Titans made an offer, but it wasn't enough for Brown. Now he's an Eagle. And we are starting to get, you know,

comments from Mike Vrabel and from John Robinson. from Mike Vrabel and from John Robinson. And I just don't know if it's satisfactory to me. Mike Vrabel said that the contract gap between A.J. Brown and the team was big and they had to trade him.

John Robinson acknowledged that the rising wide receiver market probably played a role in that gap in negotiations. John Robinson said this quote, the gap in money with AJ Brown and his reps was too big. We had a great relationship with him. It was a tough decision to trade him. John Robinson also said there was a lot of circumstances and thought that went into it. We've compensated guys in free agency,

but I come back to the gap that we had to bridge, which was too far that we had to make any progress. I mean, John Robinson just keeps coming back to the gap between what A.J. Brown wanted. It sounds like the Titans wanted to pay him $20 million along with Chris Godwin and D.J. Moore and Mike Williams. A.J. Brown wanted $25 million around Stephon Diggs' money.

And again, I guess it comes down to the gap at that point in time. Mike Vrabel said this. This is the big quote, guys. This is the big quote right here. Mike Vrabel said this. This is the big quote, guys. This is the big quote right here. Mike Vrabel said, went to the extreme to keep AJ here. I was involved in the process

the entire time. Here's more John Robinson. I don't know what else to do, but just read what I don't know what these guys are thinking. So I'm trying to give you guys insight to what these people are thinking to make a decision to trade this guy. John Robinson said that, and shout out to Ron Davenport for this quote here. John Robinson said,

Trading A.J. Brown was a tough decision that came together over the last 18 hours and really heated up this afternoon. They felt that it had gotten to the point where a deal was going to be hard to agree upon. Mike Vrabel said this, quote, I love all our players. I love A.J. Brown personally. And then Mike Vrabel said he's comfortable with how the deal went down.

So there it is, guys. I mean, from the Titans' perspective, the gap was too big in salary. My guess is $5 million. Titans wanted to give $20 million. We learned that from the leaked video of A.J. Brown talking to Debo on the phone. A.J. probably wanted $25 million,

which is what he ended up getting from the Philadelphia Eagles. But what really kills me here is, and the Titans can say the gap was too big and all that, but you get picks when you trade players like that, and you pray, you pray that you get a guy like A.J. Brown. And when you get a guy like that, who I literally said was the MVP of the Titans last year, when you get a guy like that, who I literally said was the MVP of the Titans last year,

when you get a guy like that, you don't give him away for a bunch of picks to try again. You keep guys like that. Traylon Burks is a good player, and I do feel bad because he's going to be expected to do crazy things, and nobody's celebrating him being drafted by the Titans right now because it's just utter shock and dismay. I'm getting old takes exposed to oblivion right now

because I just said over and over that he wouldn't be traded. Mike Vrabel said as long as I'm here, A.J. Brown won't be traded. I mean, the head coach of the team came out and said that, and then this happened. John Robinson said, I don't foresee it happening. So this is an absolute shock. Buck Rising tweeted that there are people within the Titans organization that tweeted, they're saying to him, WTF? You know, like, there's a video right now of Mike Vrabel

after that whole thing went down at 18. There's a video of Mike Vrabel getting up. I retweeted it on Twitter, at TicTacTitans. There's a video of Mike Vrabel getting up from the table, and he looks pissed. He looks pissed. Now, Vrabel, more than anybody, is going to say the right things to the media.

But, man, you can tell from the video. Just go to my Twitter and watch it, man. He is salty. I mean, he said as long as I'm the head coach, he won't be traded. For Mike Vrabel, who is tight-lipped, don't say anything to the media, keep everything inside the building, telling all the players they can't say this.

I have word that the Titans are incredibly strict, if it's not obvious enough to you from the way the players they can't say this. I have word that the Titans are incredibly strict if it's not obvious enough to you from the way the players talk. I mean, for Vrabel to come out and say that, man, this is just insane. So, I guess to get to the realities here, the Titans traded A.J. Brown to the Eagles. They got pick 18,

which they used on Traylon Burks out of Arkansas. And then they got pick 101. They kept their selection at 26, but what they did was they traded out of 26. They got back 35, 69, nice, and 163. And they gave up 26

and that 101 that they got from the Eagles. So we're going to talk about what picks the Titans have left, what players are still available for the Titans right now and who they could be targeting with that 35th pick. I'm hoping

that it's a certain player but we'll get into that and I also want to put this in right now AJ Brown just tweeted I'm doing this live we're doing it live breaking right here AJ Brown just tweeted quote Tennessee I love you and will forever be in my heart and I can say this now

this was not my fault but I wish you all the best. Love. I cannot believe the Titans traded A.J. Brown. What in the world? But before we turn the page here talk about

not only Traylon Burks who was drafted by the Titans who's a complete afterthought now with no fault of his own but we need to talk about what picks the Titans have now in the rest of the draft. And we got to talk about who could be remaining.

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AJ Brown's tweeting stuff saying that it's not his fault, that he's not a Titan anymore. I mean, this is... This is drama. This is insane. I mean, the Titans are the big story of the night here. The Titans are the big story in the NFL right now. It's just insane.

But with that being said, we can dissect this AJ Brown trade until Brown trade until the cows come home. But it's time to move forward and talk about what the heck's happening with the rest of the draft, what picks the Titans have, who they could be looking at. Before we get into all that, I've got to thank you guys again for making the Locked on Titans podcast your first listen every day. Again, if this is your first ever listen to the Locked on Titans podcast,

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I mean, tighten up. We're all going through this together either way. but time to look at what's happening going forward. The Titans right now have pick 35. So they got the third pick in the second round. It's a good value. All right. They got pick 69, which is the fifth in the sixth or the the fifth in the third? Sorry about that AJ Brown again tweeting. I love y'all Tennessee. So right now I'll go quickly here

The Titans have a second round pick at 35. That's great They have a third round pick the fifth pick in the third round They have another third round pick the 26th, which is still number 90. They have their fourth round pick which is gonna be 131 And going forward here. They have two fifths two sixths. So the Titans are loaded up here I'm trying to calibrate every pick that they have in here But what we need to do is we need to look at who's available for the Titans right now. That's what's really important, okay?

Right now, I'm looking at quarterback. You have to at this point. With the Titans going young in the draft, getting rid of A.J. Brown, going for Traylon Burks, I mean, this tells me that the Titans are trying to go young. So if you're going to do that, I mean, why not get a quarterback at this point? Malik Willis is still out there. Desmond Ritter is still out there.

Let me know, guys. Let me know in the chat right now. Would you prefer Desmond Ritter or would you prefer Malik Willis? That's what I want to know from you guys right now. Because I think with pick 35, there's a good chance that the Titans are going to go quarterback. So just let me know what you guys are thinking. Because for me, for me, I would go Ritter.

I still like Ritter, personally. That's where I'm at right now. I like Desmond Ritter. So, going through here, going through the picks again. I just want to go through what picks the Titans have right now. So they have number 35. They have number 69.

They have 90. They have 131, 143, 163, 169, and then 204 and 219. There we go. So that's the order of the picks that the Titans have left. 35, 69, 90, 131, 143, 163, 169, 204, 2 219 so still a ton of picks to make here

and back to best available wanted to make sure that I covered that with you guys but best available so at 35 looking at players like Ritter

and Malik Willis I'm going Ritter and Malik Willis. I'm going Ritter. That's my choice. You know, I wouldn't be surprised here if the Titans double up at wide receiver. What about Christian Watson at this point? What about Sky Moore at this point? I think Sky Moore could make a lot of sense for the Titans. Even maybe edge rusher, Boye Moffay could make some sense if they want to add some defense. I think that the Titans are

going to, now the Titans are going to move around a ton. I've been saying this all along that this draft is terrible on day three. This is a day one and a day two draft. After we get through day two and we get through the third round after about the first top 100 picks, this draft is not great. So I think John Robinson is going to do everything he can to get maybe three or four more picks in the top 100 and go after absolute people. I see plugged in 615 says Watson is a diamond. I agree. And I got some heat for this on Twitter, but as you guys can tell, I don't care about the heat a diamond. I agree. And I got some heat for this on Twitter. But as you guys can tell, I don't care about the heat, man. I'm going to speak my mind.

And we may not agree all the time on everything. You may agree with me now and disagree with me tomorrow. But I'm going to tell you guys the straight truth all the time, every single day. I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I love the Titans. Been a Titans fanatic for nearly 25 years. But I'm going to keep it real with what I see from the team. Okay? And I got going to keep it real with what I see from the team. Okay?

And I got some heat for it, but Christian Watson, if you watch his film at North Dakota State, I mean, he looks like Randy Moss out there. It's like what Randy Moss looked like when he was at Marshall. Now, I'm not saying that Christian Watson

is Randy Moss at all or anything like that. Don't be crazy. But anyways, moving forward. I like Christian Watson. I like Sky Moore for the Titans. Don't be crazy. But anyways, moving forward. I like Christian Watson. I like Sky Moore for the Titans. They can make sense. Malik Willis, Desmond Ritter, obviously I would

be pretty happy about. Trey McBride, Kevin Davis said in the thing, you know, I think it's still too early for Trey McBride. Here's what I'm talking about. If the Titans use 69 and they package it with 131 and they move up to like 50 and take Trey McBride, I would consider it. But with Austin Hooper, I just really don't think that the Titans need to take a tight end that high. I think they can get Okonkwo. I think they could get Cade Otten, Jeremy Rutker, Jelani Woods. They could get somebody later.

So no big deal there. I don't think the Titans need to rush tight end. There's good depth at tight end. They can get around, pick 90, pick 100. But Logan Hall on the defensive side of the ball, I think would be a good fit for the Titans at 35 or whatever they want to do. So I'm looking at Ritter. I'm looking at Willis.

I'm looking at Watson. I'm looking at Ritter. I'm looking at Willis. I'm looking at Watson. I'm looking at Sky Moore. I'm looking at Logan Hall, Boye Moffay. I think all those names, Andrew Booth even. I think all those guys make some sense. I mean, yeah, Malik Willis. I mean, imagine Malik Willis running around like Steve McNair out there. You know what I mean?

Who's left on the O-line? Okay, we can talk some O-line. I'm in for that as well. Bernard Raymond, obviously still out there, the offensive tackle. I think that can make a lot of sense for the Titans. A guy like Cam Juergens is still available as well. I think he can make some sense for the Titans.

Some other guys, Dylan Parnum, Darian Kennard, guards, could make a lot of sense. Donovan West, Luke Fortner at center, I think those guys could make some sense. So there are some offensive linemen left. But I got to be honest with you guys. If the Titans go offensive line here, I want it to be Bernard Raymond.

I think that he would make the most sense for the Titans. An offensive tackle prospect, not a guard, not anything like that. A real offensive tackle. But we're just going to keep breaking down the NFL draft. I want to talk some Trelon Burks with you guys. I want to dive into Trelon Burks. I know he's turning into the last segment, but we went through the picks. Again, just as another reminder, I know it was a little clunky at the beginning,

working out the kinks here with going live. But the Titans have pick 35. They have pick 69. They have pick 90. They have pick 131. Pick 143. Pick 163. Pick 169.

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Want to talk some Traylon Burks here, though, before we go anywhere. Because, obviously, he is a Tennessee Titan. And although A.J. Brown's trade has kind of clouded his arrival to the Titans, we still want to celebrate Traylon Burks. I mean, I was so excited for Traylon Burks. Him and Trevor Penning were the number one options that I had for the Titans that I thought realistically they could draft. So I'm excited about Traylon Burks.

I don't want the AJ reaction to cloud that at all. We still like Traylon Burks on this program, okay? We're fans of Traylon Burks, but before we talk Burks, I do want to thank you guys again for making the Locked On Titans podcast your first listen every day. I do just want to remind you guys that the Locked On NFL

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on whatever platform you do stream. Again, free and available on all podcasts. But to get through some of the promotional stuff, guys, you know what I mean? Gotta let you guys know what's going on here Monday through Friday, free Tennessee Titans content. But let's talk about Trelon Burks. Number one, out of Arkansas, 6'2", 225 pounds. Now, I've heard some rumors that at times his weight has fluttered around 240, and there were some people who were concerned the famous line that everybody likes is a scout said he was two biscuits away from being a tight end. So he's got to make sure that he's at the right playing weight. But when you look at AJ Brown, that's

about AJ Brown size. So there is comparability in their physicality and their size right there. I even said that, you know, he's a.J. Brown, and they are different, though. I want to point that out. He's got a little bit more Debo Samuel to his game than pure A.J. Brown. So Trelon Burke's the type of guy. He doesn't run like a pure route tree. He's good on vertical routes, but he's really good on short throws, hitting those little bubble screens in the slot

and letting him just create yards after catch abilities. I mean, he is going to take the ball in his hands on easy throws and turn them into big plays, which is something A.J. Brown did as well. So you get a little bit of that, and you've got to be happy about that. He is a great combination of size and speed and power. And people can talk about his 40-yard dash time, and it may not be tremendous like some of the other faster receivers, but go watch Traylon Burks on tape.

Go. Check it out. He is running away from defensive backs in the SEC. Running away. So, I'm not worried about Traylon Burks' speed. I'm really not. As long as he keeps his weight in a good spot, I'm absolutely not worried about Traylon Burks' speed. I'm really not. As long as he keeps his weight in a good spot, I'm absolutely not worried about it.

Catch radius is there. Go watch him. It's not just the screen passes and the yards after catch ability. He has the ability to go up and make plays in contested catch situations. He catches back shoulder fades. When he's in tight spaces, he's able to contort his body, turn his body, and win at the catch point. I mean, at 6'2", with his physicality, that's something that has to be

very important in his game at that size, and he's got it. Now, let's be honest here. We just gotta have some honesty. A lot of his production at Arkansas was schemed up. It's playing wildcat quarterback. It's

jet sweeps. It's throwing bubblecat quarterback. It's jet sweeps. It's throwing bubble screens, little short passes to get them in easy spaces, double moves down the field that maybe they're getting cornerbacks in college to bite on them. So a lot of his production was schemed up, and the Titans are going to have to team up that production for him early on until he can improve his route craft. So he's not a great guy.

He doesn't have great tempo in his routes to set up defensive backs. There's leans and paints and things that you can do while you're running your routes. He doesn't quite have perspective. He's a guy who really provides all his talent, his physicality at the college level. He really needs to improve on his technique. He needs to improve on the craft of playing wide receiver. And there were some concerns about him dropping in the draft because of the fact that teams had come out and said that they should end the meetings.

They weren't super impressed with his ability to understand what his responsibilities were as a boundary wide receiver. But the reality is here, those are things that people said about A.J. Brown coming out of college as well. The Titans allowed him to develop and use him as a weapon early on. But I just think that he's more of a Debo Samuel type guy than he is an A.J. Brown type guy. I think he's a little less developed in the route running than even A.J. was coming out, even if he maybe plays with a little more physicality. Now, the durability obviously was a big question with A.J. Brown. Not as much of a question with Trelon Burch.

Here's the one thing else that we got to talk about here. Because he spent so much time in the squad, you have to wonder how he's going to deal with press coverage at the next level. Now, he's a big physical guy with strong hands. He should be able to do just fine. And, again, I say this a lot about guys in college. It's not that they can't do it. It's that we haven't seen them do it in college because of the way they were used.

That's a lot of the knock on college guys. So, anyway, I like Trey Lumbert. I think he's a good fit. We'll talk more about Traylon Burks. I mean, probably Tuesday's episode, which goes up on Monday night on YouTube. Tuesday's episode, we are going to completely dive in to Traylon Burks.

It's going to be Traylon Tuesday. I'm going to have some cinematic stuff, some film breakdowns. I'm going to watch a ton of film. Kind of, you know, crush myself back up on Burt's after watching a couple weeks ago. So, really excited to cover Traylon Burt. But,

cap this thing off, man. Just shaking my head. Shaking my head. I get it. AJ Brown had injury concerns of his own. He wanted $25 million annually. He wanted $55-60 million guaranteed.

He quit communicating with the team after they offended him with one of the early offers. I get it. I get it. I get it. I really do. I'm trying to go through the emotional rollercoaster. One, just absolute devastation that A.J. Brown was traded. I mean, literally the best

wide receiver in team history already. Devastation. Boom. But take a Traylon Burksks the guy who was one of my A fits for the Titans now I'm back up that's good knowing that you got two first round picks

and you're at 26 thinking they're going to get a potential steal there and have two first round picks they trade back out man a potential steal there and have two first-round picks, they trade back out. But then again, they got a lot of picks to work with now and a lot of guys still available that I really like. But it's just hard to watch the Titans over the last three years

and think that this team is going to be better in 2022 than they were in 2021 without A.J. Brown. Even if Trelon Burks is a success, even if he ends up being better than A.J. Brown, there's no way that the Titans are better in 2022 with a rookie Trelon

Burks than they are a year for A.J. Brown. So if that's the case, to round all this out and bring it full circle, if that's the case, then you draft the quarterback. You draft Willis or you draft Ritter, and you establish that, hey, Tannehill's cap hit screwed us in 2022. This A.J. Brown thing went off the rails, and we're just not necessarily bunting on the year, but we are not going to do anything drastic here going forward,

and we're going to think about the future more than we think about right now, and we're going to take our quarterback, let him sit behind Tannehill, see what happens this year, and then really go for it in 2023 when we have a rookie contract at quarterback and a rookie starter. That's what I think you have to do. That's what I think you have to do. Trading A.J. Brown, to me, changes the course of the franchise for the rest of the future.

And this will be a fork in the road moment where the Titans didn't want to rebuild. They probably didn't want to take a rookie quarterback at all and weren't even considering that. And then this A.J. Brown thing happened. They were like, dang, if we're going to lose the MVP of our offense and what made this offense really special, then we might as well

just do what we can in 2022 with Tannehill. Get the rookie that we like because only one quarterback or two quarterbacks was it one? Was it two? I mean, it was one. Kenny Pickett. Only one quarterback got taken in the first round of the draft. We're going to have our pick of the guys that I think fit better with the Titans anyway in Willis or Ritter or Corral. We're going to get one of our guys that we really like and really go for it in 2023.

I don't know. We'll make sense of it more tomorrow. 300 people on the live right now. Like, I don't want to shut it down. I don't. You guys are throwing in a ton of great questions I don't even get some Eagles fans in here I mean I can't be mad

I can't be mad at Eagles fans they should be hype I mean they should be rejoicing in the streets to get a player like AJ Brown oh man crazy crazy just not at all what what i what i would be expecting not at all and listen some of you guys are saying wait until 2023 to get the quarterback the titans aren't going to

be able to get bryce young or cj stroud guys there are multiple teams with double first round picks. The Titans aren't going to just tank. So, they're not going to be in position to get CJ Stroud or Bryce Jones. They're just not. So, I think you do it now. Oh, man. I just can't believe that all

the Titans got back. For AJ Brown, was pick 18 and pick 101. Like, that is what really bugs me. That's what really bothers me here. Yep, that's it. What hurt? Oh, man. Anyway, super late here on the Eastern time zone.

Can't believe what's happened here tonight. Still in the firestorm of it all. Can't wait to talk to you guys again tomorrow. It's going to be wild. It's going to be crazy. The Titans have a bunch of picks left. Please subscribe to the Locked on Titans podcast on whatever platform you do stream.

I appreciate it very much. But that's going to do it for me today, folks. As always, I am your host, Tyler Rowland. And this was a Locked on Titans. you